If you drop your toast, it will land butterside-up – 69% Of the times. This was demonstrated by a group of three junior scientists from Graham’s Family Dairy, Scotland. Ernie, Lily (5 and 6 were part of the team that proved that butter-side down is not true. With the assistance of an adult, junior scientists prepared their experiment by buttering slices of bread. Each one was then taken from the kitchen. This study took place in Bridge of Allan (Stirlingshire). The YouTube video shows that 69 bread landed on its butter side, while 31 was able to land’splat on its butter-side’. During the experiment, scientists became distracted by the idea of throwing toast at one another. Graham’s Family Dairy’s Marketing Director Carol Graham explained that toast does not always end in a mess. It is hard to imagine a child not enjoying the task of making a mess in the kitchen. Ms. Graham said, “They disprove the belief that butter always goes on top of toast.” However, they also found that butter spread causes the bread to curve more, which alters the pattern. Ernie ensured that every step of this experiment was done with precision. You don’t have to eat your bread with lots of butter, if you like buttery toast, you will be happy that almost all the butter-side-up results are achieved. It was a great experiment that produced surprising results. Lily Stevenson (5 years old), a West Lothian native, said: “I dropped so many toast today. It would go straight down, not loop-as-loops. Many landed butterside up.” This is the evidence provided by children from Scotland that buttery toast is much more common. Molly Scobbie, six years old said that the experiment was thrilling and was great fun. I would normally be in trouble for dropping my food, but this experiment has allowed me to deliberately do so. The children clearly had a lot of fun doing things that might normally cause upset to adults. Ernie, her brother, is four years old and doesn’t like food waste. He added, “Lots and pieces of toast landed on top with butter on it, so I ate them.” Parents were known to be worried about their children’s toast landing upside down. In Ancient Rome, this was believed to have been a sign that bad luck would follow. Discovery Myth Busters covered a completely different experiment by Jamie and Adam. The two created a machine to toast both buttery and unbuttered slices and then compared their results. Nineteen of the 48 buttery pieces landed butterside-up, i.e. 60.4% Carol Graham shows you how buttery toast is made.
